Latin-English vocabulary

Description

Title: Latin-English vocabulary
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1500]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a Latin-English vocabulary
Description: In English and Latin.
Script: Slovenly written mostly by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), with calligraphic extensions on the top line. The headings of the chapters are in Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria or more often in a somewhat more solemn form of Secretary.
The majuscules are heightened in red. In the middle section of the manuscript the chapter headings are marked by a pointing hand; in the final section (ff. 20r-22v) horse-headed (?) dividers are used. Some initials in the headings are decorated with human heads. Numerous coarse pen-drawings in the margins, in black and red, more or less loosely illustrating the text.
Badly damaged paper with leaves pasted onto stubs.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Blind-tooled brown calf over cardboard boards. Spine with gold-tooled title: "OLD ENGLISH VOCABULARY. MS. XV. CENT." Red marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Collection of Norman H. Pearson, MS 273. Bequest of Norman H. Pearson, 1976.
Extent: ff. i + 23 + ii : 220 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Dictionaries, Polyglot
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Dictionaries, Polyglot
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Latin-English Vocabulary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.